"FAA Online" Calendar

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    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    6/5/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner. Pre-registration is required.  

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/5/2025

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/5/2025

    • 1:00 - 1:55 pm   Thur afternoon    6/5/2025

    Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Thur afternoon    6/5/2025

    Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Tues morning    6/10/2025
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    Collaboration is working together on a shared project or goal. Teams collaboration tools can keep projects organized and help get work done. Share files, co-author and edit content simultaneously, and work together in channels.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon    6/10/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    6/11/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    6/12/2025
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/12/2025

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon    6/12/2025

    This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    6/12/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Excel and then jump right into practice. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be well on your way to creating inclusive spreadsheets that meet State and Federal accessibility standards.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Thur afternoon    6/12/2025
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.

    • 9:00 am - 4:15 pm   Tuesday    6/17/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    6/17/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 11:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    6/18/2025

    We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/19/2025

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    6/23/2025

    Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm    6/24/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am    6/25/2025

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    6/25/2025

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm    6/25/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    We'll kick off the summer course design series with an overview of backward design, a simple course design method that will help you ensure proper alignment of objectives, assessments, and activities within your course.

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm    6/25/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    In this session, you will consider the constraints your course might be operating under. Is it part of a larger curriculum? Does your department, college, university, or accreditor require specific outcomes for the course? What are your students likely to expect from your course? What limits might that might place on your course design? But constraints inspire creativity.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    6/26/2025

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm    6/27/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    This workshop focuses on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework as a means for making design choices that ensure that all students are able to meet course and developmental goals

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm    6/27/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    Once the groundwork for your course is set, it is time to start building in earnest. In this session, you will learn the basics for crafting good learning objectives, and then start developing the objectives that will guide the rest of your course design.

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm    6/30/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    This workshop focuses on developing assessments designed to help students achieve the learning objectives of your course. We will examine different types of assessments and consider their respective strengths and downsides. You will then set to work choosing the assessments for your course.

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm    6/30/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    In a good course, your activities should count as good practice for your assessments, and since your assessments are well-aligned with your objectives, your activities will also help your students achieve their learning goals. Come learn a few activities in this workshop, how to find even more activities, and then start selecting activities to include in your course.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/1/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm    7/2/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    You will want to set fair, clear, and manageable course policies that you can explain and defend the entire semester. In this session, we'll identify a few questions you need to answer to have good course policies, and then you will create policies that are consistent with your course design so far.

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm    7/2/2025
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    This workshop ties the topics of the previous workshops together by discussing and crafting a syllabus for your newly designed course. We focus on the necessary logistical information for the syllabus, items to include to set student expectations, syllabus language and tone, and how to craft a course schedule with assessments, readings, and other ancillary materials.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    7/3/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/8/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    7/10/2025

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am    7/11/2025

    Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    7/15/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    7/17/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm    7/22/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    7/23/2025

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    7/24/2025

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    7/31/2025

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    8/7/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    8/7/2025

    Learn the accessibility requirements for videos for your departmental or course videos and audio files. This training will cover video accessibility requirements, designing videos with accessibility in mind, captioning, audio descriptions, and transcripts, as well as what to look for when choosing software or a vendor for in-house or outsourced captioning.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    8/14/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    8/14/2025

    This hands-on workshop will help you integrate Audio Description (AD) into your workflow, making visual content accessible from the start rather than as a post-production fix. You'll learn to replace vague cues like “As you can see here” with rich, meaningful descriptions that enhance accessibility and reduce technical hurdles.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    8/19/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    8/20/2025

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    8/21/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm    8/26/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065